Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 79

I could shed tears, but I will not make you unhappy on the last night we may be together.

Who acts: I, we · What happens: shed, not make, be · To what, where: tears, you, last night

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 shed	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 shed	aux
3	shed	shed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 make	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 make	cc
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 make	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 make	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 make	advmod
10	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 shed	conj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 make	obj
12	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 make	xcomp
13	on	on	ADP	_	16 night	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 night	det
15	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 night	amod
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 unhappy	obl
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 together	nsubj
18	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 together	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 together	cop
20	together	together	ADV	_	16 night	acl:relcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shed	could	I	tears		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tear=Source
2	not make	future	I	you	unhappy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Product
3	is	may	we	the last night not said here	together property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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